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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2187 Markus Frölich
Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes
Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, 103 (482), 547-558)
C13, C14
2186 Lawrence M. Kahn
The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism
This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (1), 209-226)
L12, L44, I21
2184 James J. Heckman
Contributions of Zvi Griliches
In this article, I summarize Griliches’ contributions to economics and to applied econometrics.
(published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2005 (Special issue in tribute to Zvi Griliches),79-80, 5 - 22)
B31, D24, O33
2183 Pablo Brañas-Garza
Shoshana Neuman
Intergenerational Transmission of 'Religious Capital': Evidence from Spain
The paper examines intergenerational transmission of 'religious capital' from parents to their offspring, within an economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs ...
(published in: Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 2011, 69 (3), 649-677 in English)
Z12, J12, J13, D13
2182 Horst Entorf
Martina Lauk
Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison
This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008, 34(4), 633-654)
I21
2180 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000
Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women’s labor supply behavior from 1980 to 2000. We find that their labor supply function for annual hours shifted sharply to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(3), 393-438)
J16, J22
2179 Katalin Balla
János Köllő
András Simonovits
Transition with Heterogeneous Labor
We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994), assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers’ productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2008, 19 (3), 203-220. )
J64, P31, H53
2178 Hervé Boulhol
Sabien Dobbelaere
Sara Maioli
Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(2): 331-361)
C23, F16, J51, L13
2177 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Miguel Malo
Fernando Muñoz-Bullón
The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions
This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers’ posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2008, 29 (2), 138-161 )
J2, J4
2176 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, we study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We find that changes in human capital ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 45-66)
J16, J31
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